rübˈgōl(d)ˌbərg, -bə̄g, -bəig adjective
also rube gold·berg·ian -gēən
Usage: usually capitalized R&G
Etymology: Rube Goldberg (Reuben L. Goldberg) b 1883 American cartoonist known for comic drawings of ridiculously complicated mechanical contrivances
: accomplishing by extremely complex roundabout means what actually or seemingly could be done simply
crowded with a Rube Goldberg phantasmagoria of furnaces, grinders, tanks, mixers and countless unrecognizable contraptions — Webb Waldron